Quotes About Presentation

As Daniel Pink notes in To Sell Is Human, "Like it or not, we're all in sales now."4

Great conversations or presentations take you to ideas you'd never considered.

When you change the way you see yourself as a speaker, the speaker your audience sees will change." CARMINE GALLO You

un lenguaje corporal y una ejecución verbal genuinos y naturales, casi como si estuviesen manteniendo una conversación en lugar de dirigirse a un público amplio.

alcanzar momentos de asombro, y prestaremos especial atención a aquellos oradores que minuciosa y deliberadamente diseñan y ejecutan instantes deslumbrantes de los que quienes asisten a sus charlas siguen hablando años más tarde.

humor genuino: cuándo usarlo, cómo hacerlo y cómo ser gracioso sin contar un chiste.

duración ideal para transmitir nuestras ideas.

you can invite trouble if you slouch, avoid eye contact, use vague, imprecise language, and are generally sloppy in your attire.

The four elements of verbal delivery are: rate, volume, pitch, and pauses. RATE: Speed at which you speak VOLUME: Loudness or softness PITCH: High or low inflections PAUSES: Short pauses to punch key words

The Art of Asking,

It takes courage to reduce the number of the slides in a presentation. It takes courage to speak for 18 minutes instead of rambling on for much longer. Leonardo da Vinci once said, "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

A person can have the greatest idea in the world—completely different and novel—but if that person can't convince enough other people, it doesn't matter. —GREGORY BERNS

Great public speakers know this and build presentations around one of the senses predominantly, but they incorporate at least one or two others: sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. Smell and taste are harder to incorporate

Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance.

Great speakers use short words to explain new ideas.

la verdadera magia de una presentación memorable reside en que el orador deje de lado sus notas, hable con el corazón y permita que el público se asome a su propia alma.

According to Tufte, "By leaving out the narrative between the points, the bullet outline ignores and conceals the causal assumptions and analytic structure of the reasoning." A list of bullet points is a presenter's way of compressing language into brief phrases. Bulleted outlines "might be useful now and then," Tufte writes, "but sentences with subjects and verbs are usually better.

Inspiring communicators and the best TED presenters stick to one of three types of stories. The first are personal stories that relate directly to the theme of the conversation or presentation; second are stories about other people who have learned a lesson the audience can relate to; third are stories involving the success or failure of products or brands.

Every salad you serve is a picture you have painted, a sculpture you have modeled, a drama you have created.

A photo essay (otherwise known as a fucking slide show)...

Once you take to the habit of deception, every new lie comes that much easier. Though to me it wasn't so much lies as a matter of judicious editing. We all inevitably present a version of ourselves that is a collection of half-truths and exclusions. The way I saw it, the truth was too complicated, whereas the well-chosen lie would put everyone's mind at ease.

You got the this place lookin' like a whore-house." Jitty said.

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.